Humor is wit and love.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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